Podcasts & Webinars

Understanding The Sustainability Formula

Pete York, Senior Vice President and Director of Research

Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Pete York discusses his new research paper which explains how nonprofits can remain resilient in challenging economic times.

Beyond the Hype: Social Media Strategies for Nonprofit Arts Organizations

Nadia Gomes, Consultant
Chris Cardona, Consultant

TCC Group consultants Nadia Gomes and Chris Cardona are joined by the Wallace Foundation's Rory MacPherson as well as Whit Maclaughin, Director of Fatebook (Philly Fringe), to talk about using social media to build audiences and community.

Adaptive Leadership for Nonprofits

Shelly Kessler, Vice President and Director of the Nonprofit practice
Bonnie Mazza, Consultant

Vice President and Director of the Nonprofit practice, Shelly Kessler, and consultant, Bonnie Mazza offer ideas about why adaptive leadership makes a difference for nonprofit organizations during an economic downturn.

What Makes Nonprofits Sustainable?

Pete York, Senior Vice President and Director of Research

TCC Group shares the results of new data collected from a recently conducted survey of over 700 nonprofit organizations. In this podcast recorded with the Foundation Center's library director Charlotte Dion, TCC's Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Pete York discusses common characteristics of successful nonprofits.

Change Management

Anne Sherman, Associate Director, Nonprofit Practice
Gary Bagley, Executive Director of New York Cares

TCC Group has watched nonprofit organizations engage in change processes for nearly 30 years. In that time, we have learned some things about organizational change and how to lead a successful change process. In this podcast, TCC Group Associate Director Anne Sherman and Gary Bagley, Executive Director of New York Cares, discuss change as opportunity, especially in challenging economic times.

A Community of Learners

Chantell Johnson, Evaluation Director
Allison Crean, TCC Group Affiliate

In recent years, internal evaluation has become increasingly useful, both for nonprofit organizations and for funders. For funders, such mechanisms have been useful to measure the success of their funding strategies. Nonprofits have been used to satisfy both the increasing external demand for accountability and to more accurately measure their impacts and successes. In this podcast, TCC Group Evaluation Director Chantell Johnson and TCC Group affiliate Allison Crean talk about building a community of learners as one strategy toward the development of an organization's evaluation and programmatic capacity and effectiveness.

Capacity Building

Susan Misra, Senior Consultant
Alice Hill, Senior Consultant

TCC Group Senior Consultants Susan Misra and Alice Hill are joined by their client, Bob Ross, President and CEO of the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation to examine the importance of strengthening organizational capacity as a key way to build sustainability. Specifically, they will talk about the Challenge Fund for Journalism, a capacity-building and fundraising initiative aimed at the journalism sector.

Corporate Signature Programs

Tom Knowlton, Vice President and Director, TCC Group
Dee Lee, Senior Vice President, Outcome Grants Manager, Wachovia

Dee Lee and Tom Knowlton discuss corporate signature programs. Dee outlines the process and criteria Wachovia used to create the Teachers and Teaching Initiative, as well as the benefits and drivers for developing their signature program.

Cultural Competency

Susan Misra, Senior Consultant, TCC Group
Jennifer Avers, Consultant, TCC Group
Ana Ramos-Hernandez, Consultant, TCC Group

Susan Misra, Jennifer Avers and Ana Ramos-Hernandez discuss TCC Group's experience with — and development of — culturally competent consulting practices. Jennifer Avers and Ana Ramos-Hernandez begin by discussing two examples that illustrate how both clients and consulting firms seek to be culturally competent. Susan Misra concludes by discussing how TCC Group's Cultural Competency Task Force is responding to the growing demand for culturally competent consultants.

Evaluating Organizational Capacity of Policy and Advocacy Organization

Jared Raynor, Senior Consultant TCC Group
Astrid Hendricks, Ed.D, Director, Evaluation and Barbara Masters, M.A., Public Policy Director, The California Endowment

Advocacy as a strategy for the nonprofit sector has become increasingly widespread. Foundations are looking to fund more of this type of work; nonprofits are learning how to harness its power toward better achieving their mission; and both are trying to better understand how to evaluate success. As the strategy of advocacy has grown, organizations have learned important advocacy skills. But, what does it mean to be an effective advocacy organization? What capacities are important for putting into practice advocacy strategies? How can organizations (and funders) ensure they have the capacity for doing advocacy work?

Barbara Masters, Astrid Hendricks, and Jared Raynor briefly examine some of these issues.

Corporations – Going Beyond Grantmaking for Greater Impact

Janice Brown, Senior Consultant, TCC Group

Janice Brown discusses how corporations can do "value-added grantmaking" to build deeper relationships with targeted sets of grantees in order to overcome cynicism, create good will ambassadors, and ultimately achieve greater outcomes for the nonprofit community and the company.

Strategic Philanthropy: Maximizing Family Engagement and Social Impact

Ashley Blanchard, Senior Consultant, TCC Group
Carol Gallo, Senior Consultant, TCC Group

As TCC Group broadens its work with family foundations, the firm has come to understand the unique value that a more strategic approach can bring to family philanthropy. Ashley Blanchard and Carol Gallo discuss why family foundations may want to be more strategic in their giving, and how they can transition from giving that's driven by trustees' individual interests to giving that's based on shared values and priorities.

Transformational Strategic Planning

Shelly Kessler, Vice President and Director, TCC Group
Kevin Mestrich, former Executive Director, Maryknoll Lay Missioners and current Executive Director, Hartley House

Kevin Mestrich and Shelly Kessler discuss how to engage and implement in a transformational strategic planning process.